Quotes About Survival

I can't criticize mothers' obsessive love because that's probably the only reason why species have survived, from bats to technocrats. Nor

Este hombre es como algunos árboles que aguantan vientos huracanados inclinándose, pero sin quebrarse.

Gervasio Lonquimay

He thought that if the youngster had survive the shock, the hemorrhaging, and the journey to reach this station platform, he must really want to live; and so it would be a shame to surrender him to death now.

La selección de la especie no ha servido para que florezca la inteligencia o evolucione el espíritu, a la primera oportunidad nos destrozamos unos a otros como ratas prisioneras en una caja demasiado estrecha.

I have lived in a rough sea where waves would lift me and then drop me to the bottom.

In Chile, the clerk on duty demands that the poor petitioner produce proof that he was born, that he isn't a criminal, that he paid his taxes, that he registered to vote, and that he's still alive, because even if he throws a tantrum to prove that he hasn't died, he is obliged to present a "certificate of survival.

Escapar ileso en un combate es cuestión de suerte, hasta el más experto puede perecer por una bala perdida.

He had always been thin, but there he was reduced to nothing but skin and bones. His skin was burned by the unrelenting sun, salt, and sand, his features sharpened: he was a Giacometti sculpture in cast iron.

Me encierro en el baño, me doy una ducha fría y recito el repertorio completo de mis palabrotas, y enseguidame voy a pasar unas horas haciendo collares en el taller de Tabra. Fue muy útil la terapia. Gracias a eso y a la escritura sobreviví a variadas pruebas, aunque no siempre salí airosa, y se salvó mi amor con Willie. Elmelodrama familiar continuó, por fortuna, porque si no ¿de qué diablos iba yo aescribir?

Se necesita amor para seguir viviendo.

la muerte de un hijo quiebra a la pareja, pocas sobreviven a esa prueba

Clara los escribió para que me sirvieran ahora para rescatar las cosas del pasado y sobrevivir a mi propio espanto. El primero es un cuaderno escolar de veinte hojas, escrito con una delicada caligrafía infantil. Comienza así: <>

Se protegió del sadismo y la estupidez de sus captores encerrándose en sus recuerdos, con la certeza de que Roser lo andaba buscando y un día lo encontraría, y en el silencio.

The day we arrived in Auschwitz, there were so many people to be burned that the four crematoriums couldn't handle the task. So the Germans built big open fires to throw the children in.

If you're alive, then there is hope for a better day and something good to happen. If there is nothing good left in the destiny of a person, he or she will die.

We walked into the arms of the forest...

Children played guessing games, telling each other whether the gun fired was and AK-47, a G3, an RPG, or a machine gun.

We all knew that we could grieve only for a short while in order to continue staying alive.

We had not only lost our childhood in the war but our lives had been tainted by the same experiences that still caused us great pain and sadness.

My squad was my family, my gun was my provider and protector, and my rule was to kill or be killed. The extent of my thoughts didn't go much beyond that. We had been fighting for over two years, and killing had become a daily activity. I felt no pity for anyone.

You can only threaten someone with hell if they have never had hell

That morning we thanked the men who had helped bury Saidu. You will always know where he is laid, one of the men said. I nodded in agreement, but I know that the chances of coming back to the village were slim, as we had no control over our future. We know only how to survive.

I will not be alive to see the end of this war. So, to save a place in your memories for other things, I won't tell you my name. If you survive this war, just remember me as the old man you met. You boys should be on your way.